CRIMSON: through Debate to global Citizenship

Za in proti acted as an associated expert partner in the project coordinated by Osnovna šola Franceta Prešerna Maribor. Full details are available on the project website: Erasmus+ Project Details.

The project targeted students aged 11–15 at primary and lower secondary school levels. The acronym CRIMSON stood for Critical, Reliable, Innovative, Mindful Students who are Organised Noticeably. Over two years, 24 students and 12 teachers from six schools in Spain, Turkey, Italy, Serbia, Greece, and Slovenia implemented debate as a learning methodology and strategy in school programs that previously had no debate component.

Project Activities:

• Rhetorical Pros and Cons – introduction to debate methodology for teachers
  
• Soft Transferable Skills Workshops – training for students
  
• Competitive Debate Formats – training for students
  
• Classroom Debate – teacher training
  
• Debate Tournament – forum for students
  
• Final Teachers’ and Students’ Trainings and Evaluation
  

Consortium and Partners:

• Coordinator: Osnovna Šola Franceta Prešerna Maribor (Slovenia)
  
• Partners: Primary School of Drama (Greece), Instituto Compresivo (Italy), I.E.S. Leopoldo Alas Clarin (Spain), Neriman Ibrahim Kucukkurt Ortokulu Selcuklu (Turkey), Osnovna Šola France Prešeren (Slovenia)
  

Key Information:

• Funded by the European Union (European Commission)
  
• Program: Erasmus+
  
• Main Activity: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
  
• Type of Action: School education partnerships